US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on March 31 for "Question answering using entity references in unstructured data" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,629, issued on March 31, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Question answering using entity references in unstructured data" was invented by Dvir Keysar (Herzliya, Israel) and Tomer Shmiel (Ramat Gan, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and computer-readable media are provided for collective reconciliation. In some implementations, a query is received, wherein the query is associated at least in part with a type of entity. Top-ranked search results are caused to be generated based at least in part on the query. An entity of the type of entity is identified in the top-ranked results and a respons...